_ In March 1892, 40 year old, Mr.
William Glendinning, a coal miner, living at School Row, Barrington Colliery,
was the sole patentee of an attachment to be applied to balloons by which their
distance from the earth could be regulated.
Professor Gerrnatt, M.A., of Durham College of Science, who honoured Mr. Glendinning with an hour long interview, pronounced the invention as one of the most wonderful of it’s kind, and substantiated the inventors idea as being thoroughly practicable, thus leaving little doubt that Mr. Glendinning had succeeded in finding the missing link in aeronaut matters, a labour which cost him 16 years of hard study and expense.
Mr. Glendinning was a well known and much respected person at Barrington Colliery, where he had resided for a number of years, and where, it is needless to say, the success of his invention was looked forward to with great interest.
The business arrangements in connection with the invention were conducted through the Patent Agency at Fawcett Street, Sunderland. Mr. R. Elliot, manager of the agency was the person behind the sale of the invention, for which probably a small and handsome fortune would have been paid for this local man’s great work.
Professor Gerrnatt, M.A., of Durham College of Science, who honoured Mr. Glendinning with an hour long interview, pronounced the invention as one of the most wonderful of it’s kind, and substantiated the inventors idea as being thoroughly practicable, thus leaving little doubt that Mr. Glendinning had succeeded in finding the missing link in aeronaut matters, a labour which cost him 16 years of hard study and expense.
Mr. Glendinning was a well known and much respected person at Barrington Colliery, where he had resided for a number of years, and where, it is needless to say, the success of his invention was looked forward to with great interest.
The business arrangements in connection with the invention were conducted through the Patent Agency at Fawcett Street, Sunderland. Mr. R. Elliot, manager of the agency was the person behind the sale of the invention, for which probably a small and handsome fortune would have been paid for this local man’s great work.
